Dental Health and Procedure Quiz

Dental Terminology

• Alveolar Osteitis: Inflammation of the alveolar bone following tooth extraction, causing severe pain due to a disrupted blood clot.

• Alveoplasty: Surgical reshaping and smoothing of the tooth socket after extraction, often to prepare for a prosthesis.

• Analogy: Comparison of similar characteristics between different things.

• Athetosis: Involuntary movements of the body, face, and extremities.

• Autonomy: Process of becoming independent in childhood.

• Avulsed: Torn away or dislodged by force.

• Cerebral Palsy: Neural disorder affecting motor function, caused by brain damage.

Dental Procedures and Instruments

• Chronologic Age: Actual age (months, years) of a patient, especially a pediatric patient.
• Contouring: Shaping an object.
• Down Syndrome: Chromosomal defect resulting in physical and mental impairments (trisomy 21).
• Emotional Age: Measure of emotional maturity in pediatric patients.
• Extrusion: Displacement of a tooth out of its socket due to injury.
• Frankl Scale: Measurement tool for evaluating patient behavior.
• Intellectual Disability: Disorder limiting intellectual functions and adaptive behaviors (social and practical skills).
• Intrusion: Displacement of a tooth into its socket due to injury.
• Luxation: Dislocation.
• Mental Age: Measure of intellectual capacity and development in pediatric patients.
• Neural: Relating to the brain, nervous system and nerve pathways.
• Open Bay Concept: Open design used in pediatric dental practices.
• Papoose Board: Stabilization device holding a child's hands, arms, and legs still.
• Pulpotomy: Removal of the coronal portion of a vital pulp from a tooth.
• Spasticity: Exaggerated movement of arms and legs.
• T-Band: Matrix band used for primary teeth.
• Bone File: Surgical instrument used for smoothing rough bone edges.
• Chisel: Surgical instrument for cutting or severing tooth and bone structure.
• Curette: Surgical instrument used to remove tissues from a tooth socket.
• Donning: Putting on an item (e.g., gloves).
• Elevator: Surgical instrument used for reflecting and retracting periodontal ligament and periosteum.
• Excisional Biopsy: Surgical removal of the entire lesion and surrounding normal tissue for analysis.
• Exfoliative Biopsy: Diagnostic procedure to scrape cells from a suspected oral lesion for analysis.
• Fine Needle Aspiration: Biopsy procedure using a fine needle to collect a sample for diagnosis.
• Forceps: Surgical instrument used to grasp and hold teeth.
• Hard Tissue Impaction: Partially or fully covered tooth by bone and gum tissue.
• Hemostat: Surgical instrument for holding or grasping objects.
• Impacted Tooth: Tooth that hasn't erupted.
• Incisional Biopsy: Surgical removal of a portion of a suspected lesion and surrounding tissue for analysis.
• Luxate: To dislocate a tooth from its socket.
• Mallett: Hammer-like instrument used with a chisel.
• Needle Holder: Surgical instrument for holding suture needles.
• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon (OMFS): Dentist specializing in head and neck surgeries.
• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: Dental surgical specialty treating mouth, face, jaw and associated areas.
• Outpatient: Patient treated and sent home.
• Retractor: Surgical instrument for holding soft tissue away from surgical site.
• Rongeur: Surgical instrument used to trim alveolar bone.
• Root Tip Picks: Surgical instrument for removing root tips or fragments.
• Scalpel: Surgical knife.
• Soft Tissue Impaction: Partially or fully covered tooth by gum tissue.

Orthodontics Terminology

• Arch Wire: Contoured wire applying force for tooth alignment correction.
• Auxiliary: Additional support for orthodontic appliances.
• Band: Stainless-steel band cemented to molars for arch wire and auxiliary support.
• Braces: Fixed orthodontic appliances.
• Bracket: Small device bonded to teeth for arch wire holding.
• Cephalometric Projection: Extraoral radiograph evaluating skull, bones and soft tissue.
• Cross-Bite: Maxillary teeth laterally misaligned with mandibular teeth.
• Crowding: Lack of space for properly aligned teeth.
• Dentofacial Structures: Teeth, jaws and surrounding facial bones.
• Distoclusion: Class II malocclusion (maxillary tooth mesiobuccal cusp overlaps mandibular tooth mesiobuccal groove).
• Ectopic Eruption: Abnormal tooth eruption direction.
• Fetal Molding: Jaw distortion from pressure.
• Headgear: External orthodontic appliance for growth and movement control.
• Ligature: Thin wire securing arch wire to brackets.
• Mesioclusion: Class III malocclusion.
• Open Bite: Lack of vertical overlap between maxillary incisors (gap between).
• Orthodontics: Dental specialty preventing, intercepting and correcting skeletal and dental problems.
• Overbite: Maxillary jaw overlapping mandibular jaw, excessive vertical maxillary incisor overlap.
• Overjet: Excessive maxillary incisor protrusion.
• Positioner: Appliance maintaining tooth position after treatment.
• Retainer: Appliance maintaining tooth jaw position after orthodontic treatment.
• Separator: Wire or elastic placed interproximally to separate molars before band placement.